2024-12-22T09:08:08-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/134815269/fr-ee-frente-and-rvdg-to-redevelop-mexico-city-s-historic-avenida-chapultepec Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-08-21T17:59:00-04:00 >2015-08-25T18:58:14-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/91/91xqnsmm58q2vrye.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Mexico City-based firms FR-EE, Frente Arquitectura and RVDG Arquitectura + Urbanism will redesign a 0.8 mile-long stretch of Avenida Chapultepec, one of the city&rsquo;s most historic corridors, into a multi-modal public space and park.</p><p>Extending the roadway as a part of Chapultepec Park, their proposal for "Cultural Corridor Chapultepec" includes a broadening of the street&rsquo;s center for pedestrians and recreating, and increased lane spaces for bikes and buses, with a narrowing for cars. There will also be an upper retail level built into the Avenida.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/4p/4p5b4ikd8it01zu8.jpg"></p><p>The corridor has played a strong historical role in the city, serving as the thruway that divided the cities of San Juan and San Pablo in the 16th century, and connected the city of Calzada San Juan to the resting place of the Aztec emperors. The roadway became the path for an aqueduct to Mexico City in the 18th century, and was the site for the city&rsquo;s first electrical tramway in 1900. Student protests raged on the Avenida in 1968, while below ...</p>